Time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new.

The human body is vapor materialized by sunshine mixed with the life of the stars.

And it is true, best is nothing concealed which shall not be discovered; for which cause a marvellous being shall come after me, who as yet lives not, and who shall reveal many things.

Thoughts give birth to a creative force that is neither elemental nor sidereal. Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow. When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven.

The universities do not teach all things ... so a doctor must seek out old wives, gypsies, sorcerers, wandering tribes, old robbers, and such outlaws and take lessons from them. A doctor must be a traveller . . . Knowledge is experience.

This is alchemy, and this is the office of Vulcan; he is the apothecary and chemist of the medicine.

The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.